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CW 25 Years Ago: June, 1990

This issue was packed with great stories, highlighted by our test of the new ST1100 V-4, which appeared on our cover long before any police agencies got their hands on this Honda. Even though the ST had what we called "comparatively lazy frame geometry," we quickly fell in love with the pricey...

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A hot issue! Hot pink, that is. But the bikes were also hot: "Built for Speed II" lined up five hopped-up musclebikes in a big performance shootout. Jay Gleason, all 135 pounds of him, ripped the bikes through the quarter mile, while legend Don Vesco ran them for ultimate top speed. The Vance &...

The coverline "Giant Killers" couldn't have been more appropriate reflecting back to when I read this article for the first time all those years ago. The Japanese-market Honda CBR400RR and Yamaha FZR400RR SP sportbikes that were featured might as well have been Ferraris; even if I could have...

Dominating the cover of this issue was the Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, a newsworthy bike at the time to be sure, but the little inset of the 1990 Suzuki GSXR750 is what caught my attention. I used to have the Suzuki ad for this very model pinned to my bulletin board, and it gave me motivation to...

Forgive us, please, for the trendy Day-Glo colors that dotted our October 1990 issue—on the cover and in several layouts. Far more important, however, are the rare bikes that appeared on this cover: a Wankel-powered Norton F1 ("Norton's Back!" Really?) and the 1991 Harley-Davidson Sturgis. For...

Proving that vintage revivals are nothing new, we got Kenny Roberts and Bob Hannah aboard classic bikes. The King rode a '59 Norton Manx, and Hurricane blew through some berms on a '64 Rickman Triumph. "God, I dread riding this bike," Roberts said before saddling up. He later praised the famed...

This issue closed the decade with a look ahead at several new 1990 models. The feature section dedicated several pages to upcoming bikes from Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha with Honda's new ST1000 sport-tourer leading a Big Red lineup that also included a new VFR750 equipped with a single-side...